To my surprise, nothing’s happened yet today. The s have been quiet this Halloween. But the celebration always occurs at night...
Word got around that the users of the Brick Boards are celebrating Halloween despite the party’s destruction. I’m not about to miss this. I’ll do what I did last time and dress as my rank, which is now Roman Soldier. I put on the cape and chestplate. This will do.
I carry a Party Bosscrasher flag with me as I make my way to CC’s center. Official or not, this party will be claimed by the Party Bosscrashers. Once I’m close, I use my sword to launch myself into the air. I drop in from the sky and plant the flag as I land.
“Party Bosscrashers assemble!!”
I take a look around. I’m the first one here. So much for all that.
Some others do soon arrive. Guru is here, dressed as a cowboy. Mipollo arrives as well. Last time I saw her was at Benboy’s gallery, but she looks to be free of . GKF8 must have rescued the users there while he was there.
A trio of users in Chima costumes arrive. I look at their nametags to identify them as Batonmaster, Jgread, and TheFirstDecade. They seem to still be RPing... I’ll stay out of their way.
AP and SOE arrive. AP looks to be dressed as someone, but I can’t tell who.
“Where’s the punch?” SOE asks.
AP responds by punching him in the face.
“I guess I asked for that,” SOE moans.
I take another look around the gathering. A4 is now here—in conversation with Guru! I hurry there and use an explosion to throw A4 to the ground.
“What was that all about?” Guru asks.
“I saw him being taken by the !” I reply.
A4 returns to his feet, his smile remaining. “You cannot stop us, HannahDash. No one can!”
He backs away, but stays in the vicinity. The users soon return to what they were doing before, but with many glances at me and A4. I’ve instructed my pigeons to bring candy once the sun sets. Now I’m just watching that sunset, waiting.
A single pigeon arrives just as the sun disappears.
{Authors Note} I am aware that he prefers going by Colt now instead of Guru. I chose to be consistent with the preceding story and with the story's 2020 setting. (another problem with me taking so long to write this thing )
Plane engines are heard overhead. It would seem the pigeon was unable to give me much advance warning. The flaming coal blocks soon arrive.
Some users flee from the onslaught. Others just take cover. But of course, where there are FlameForce planes, there will also be the mechs and tanks. The arriving army prioritizes me, which is for the better since I have my sword to defend myself. I make good use of it to begin blowing up their vehicles. But there’s just too many.
More pigeons come to my aid. More helpful, however, is the other army that then arrives, one which I hear before I see.
“EVIL, EVIL, EVIL ARE THE S!!”
Along with the green sheep are the leprechauns. Both armies join the attack on FlameForce. It’s only a matter of time before FlameForce is overpowered... Wait, is that a on the ground? It’s entering the green sheep ranks!
I dive down to stop it. It’s heading for one of the leading green sheep. The sheep seems oblivious to the threat... or anything, really. He’s just dancing about and singing his own thing, reminding me of a . The gets to him before I do, jumping into his head. I land and ready my sword to attack.
The drops back onto the ground, looking slightly red. Its attempt to take the sheep failed! I create explosions to chase it away.
When I return to the air, I see the ’s incoming reinforcements. Numerous emotes, as well as a few of their users. I see Sham, Nadajay, Henny... Ihavetalent? I’ve never seen him in the Brick Boards!
Allies of our own add to the mess. IceFire’s dragon appears in the sky. C.H.D. lasers fly. GKF8 is down there imploding s.
He’s wrong about me being a chaotic person. This battle is nothing but chaos. It’s all too much!
Chaos is my specialty.
Can... can you control me for the time being? I can’t do this.
All you had to do was ask!
I feel the full power of . It’s easier not having to focus on everything, and I can tell that the sword is more powerful under the ’s control. I descend to the ground, where an emote comes out to meet me. The jumps into my head.
Get me into Ihavetalent’s head!
Following the ’s instructions, I begin my push through the ’s forces. But there’s too many of them, I can’t get through alone. Perhaps GKF8 can help...
I hate working with the !
I don’t like him either, but right now you two need to get along. We have to defeat the .
Fine...
I move down to GKF8’s position. “Hannah says we need to work together. The wants to get into Ihavetalent’s head.”
He says nothing, looking unhappy, but he joins me. Together, our push is more successful. Ihavetalent is staying in the back, keeping away, but we are able to get close. Seeing us, Ihavetalent lifts into the air and starts throwing dark s as us. Since when has he been able to fly?!
GKF8 makes implosions to divert the projectiles away from me. I create an explosion to pass close enough for the to transfer into Ihavetalent’s head. I make my landing and wait.
GKF8 and I keep the incoming emotes back, ensuring they can’t get into Ihavetalent’s head and overpower the inside.
“The is more powerful than the ! How is it not winning?” I ask.
“The ’s power came from the MBs. With the MBs now gone, it’s evenly matched.”
I did see a being repulsed earlier, something more powerful than the ... the ! They always seem to be lingering nearby.
“The is the solution! I’m going to find one,” I say.
“Don’t get them involved! That’ll only make it worse!” GKF8 replies.
“It can’t get much worse!”
I leave and go to the edges of the battle. A is surely around here somewhere. It’s not long before I find one.
“We need your help to defeat the !” I say.
The ignores me, continuing on a random path.
“Don’t you care that the s are going to destroy everything we have?”
The stops only a moment. “We have no preference between and .”
“Even the sees the ’s evils!”
“You want to know what we are? We are the combination of and , formed by their power as the worlds merged. We have no preference.”
The wanders away, and I follow. I’ve just realized something. There’s also a in Ihavetalent’s head... Maybe the would agree to come knowing that! But will I subject the to the without its consent?
The would gladly give anything to stop the .
“Ihavetalent has both a and a in his head,” I say.
The stops and looks at me. “The lead emotes are both in his head?”
“Yes.”
The darts away in that direction. “I’ll make a new friend!”
That does it. The s aren’t able to stop the emote, and neither is GKF8. It’s able to jump into Ihavetalent’s head, and its victory is soon clear. The s vanish. The jumps out of Ihavetalent’s head, but he looks to still have a inside him, as they dance away together. Through the various noises, one voice screaming stands out. General Flame. Considering that he lost control of himself and his army, that reaction makes sense.
GKF8 finds me. “How did the manage to replicate? They were bad enough without that ability!”
I realize the answer. “It told me that the is the combination of and . The merged the two emotes inside Ihavetalent’s head.”
GKF8 is speechless for a moment. “What have you done?! I knew I shouldn’t have trusted you, !”
“What I did was help get rid of the once and for all.”
“And in its place, established a greater threat!”
“The isn’t trying to turn everyone into its slave.”
“You don’t know what it wants. No one knows what goes through whatever of a mind it might have.”
“It’s not going to be a big threat.”
GKF8 glares at me, looking somehow more than usual. “By the time I can say I told you so, it’ll be too late.”
-last edited on Jan 22, 2022 11:36:21 GMT by HannahDash
Post by HannahDash on Jan 22, 2022 11:34:47 GMT
Chapter 23: Celebration
GKF8 leaves without another word, so I turn my attention to the aftermath of the battle. The first thing I notice is the meeting of the two Shams.
The real Sham holds out his sword. “Are you ready?”
The other nods and takes hold of the sword’s blade. He soon vanishes, leaving just the one Sham.
“It’s good to have you back,” I say.
“It’s good to be back.” Sham shakes his head. “Hopefully this is the last time I’ll be controlled by .”
“It should be. The is not banned, but gone.”
A few staff members have arrived. I approach the nearest of them, Sam.
“I tried to tell y’all about Henny, but the s messed up the Talk to the Staff computers,” I say.
“They also tried to get to the rest of us, but we were able to remain hidden from them. Henny wasn’t there when it happened. I take it the :)s got to him?”
“He was working with them willingly.”
Sam pauses. “Are you sure?”
“I saw him alongside the s without their smile on his face. Galactaknightfan8 can confirm this, he was there.”
“We will investigate this matter.”
I notice the crowd of users starting to leave, so I follow.
“Where are we going?” I ask.
“The Halloween Party, destroyed as it is, is still less of a mess than out here,” Sham says.
We return to the building and enter. A few pigeons soon arrive with the candy bucket, and we all partake. A few users start playing games. I, meanwhile, retreat to the corner. After the mess of tonight, some peace and quiet is nice.
Anvils start falling through the holes in the ceiling. I choose to go outside before any land on me. From out here, I can see the source: Glubby is on the roof dropping them. I leave him be, instead sitting down on the ground nearby.
“Hi.”
I look to see that Tony has appeared next to me.
“It’s all over now,” I say.
“For good this time.”
“I still don’t like how I had to do it... Convincing the to enter Ihavetalent’s head got rid of the , but also the . I wasn’t able to ask the before doing that to it...”
“The would have agreed, it was worth the sacrifice to stop the .”
I say nothing for a second, then draw my sword. “I’m getting déjà vu. At this rate, the C.H.D.’s gonna show up and—”
The voice comes from behind. “HANNAH!!”
Not the C.H.D., actually. But FlameForce isn’t much different.
General Flame continues, “JUST BECAUSE YOU SAVED ME FROM THE AND THE OPERA MUSIC DOESN’T MAKE YOU GOOD!”
“Come on, can’t we take a break and celebrate our victory over the ?”
“TAKING BREAKS IS FOR WIMPS!”
Tony backs away. “I’ll leave you guys alone.”
Normal is returning, now that the is gone. And normal involves getting into fights with FlameForce...
That’ll keep life interesting! They don’t stand a chance against us!
Stay tuned for Hidden Secrets, the revelation of all things Hannah did not see...
(just to be clear, that's not its own story, it's bonus chapters to this story )
-last edited on Jan 23, 2022 20:11:54 GMT by HannahDash
Post by HannahDash on Jan 23, 2022 20:10:41 GMT
Hidden Secret 1: Releasing the Part 1
WhiteAlligator left the podium quickly at the end of her speech. Likely, she anticipated the uproar which immediately followed.
The MBs were closing?! Why? Why so soon? Ihavetalent would miss this place, even though it hadn’t treated him well.
Ihavetalent left the topic without speaking. He never said much since Halloween. That tragic day. The that now lived in his head branded him as one of the few who saw the truth. Others often gave him looks. All of them had been deceived...
A came into view and approached.
Ihavetalent stepped back. “What do you want?”
“The mods have decided to recall the in your head. They want you and the others to better enjoy the time you have left here.”
Ihavetalent felt the inside take control. “He’s not ready. He still supports the .”
Ihavetalent regained control of his voice. “I won’t do anything! I know better than to resist you and the mods.”
“The mods considered this, and they made their decision. Let’s go,” the on the ground said.
The in his head jumped out and followed the other. Ihavetalent was free!
What he said to the s was a lie. He would do whatever he could to help the . With the MBs ending in only two months, he had nothing to lose.
He returned to the announcement topic. Having help would be important if he were to somehow save the . He soon spotted the user he was looking for: Waffleboy was making his way to the exit. The look on his face made it clear he was thinking the same thing as Ihavetalent. They left the topic to talk in privacy.
“How are we going to free the ?” Ihavetalent asked.
“We can’t enter the Banned User Dungeon unless we’re imprisoned there.”
“Maybe with some more time we can make a plan.”
***
The plan had fallen into place when the mods announced the upcoming Mod Party. Now that it was occurring, the mods were in those two topics. The SMC, however, was likely still in the Mod Tower. Something more was needed to keep him occupied. The duo was already on it.
“I’m in, I’m in!” Waffleboy exclaimed.
Waffleboy hacked into the sound systems of the party topics and turned up the speakers to the max. The loud noise would make conversation impossible. Hopefully this would get the SMC’s attention.
Ihavetalent hurried away as soon as the first step was done. He needed to get to the Mod Tower, which wasn’t too far from the party topics.
When he arrived, he started by leaving a message on a Talk to the Mods computer. This would make his presence here less suspicious. After writing a complaint about the condition of the Mod Party, he took a look around. There was an elevator, but that certainly had security to make sure normal users weren’t making use of it to enter forbidden areas. Surely there were stairs...
A bit of wandering revealed the stairs’ location. The door leading there read, “EMERGENCY STAIRS, ALARM WILL SOUND.”
An alarm... but this was Ihavetalent’s only chance.
Ihavetalent opened the door to enter the stairwell. He sped down the stairs as the alarm began. He descended until he reached the bottom, where he encountered a locked door.
Ihavetalent had come prepared. He reached into his toolbag and pulled out a brick separator. Once he dismantled the door’s handle, it came open with ease. He passed each cell until finding the one with an emote instead of a user. The was imprisoned inside a different cell; this one was lined with some sort of green crystal.
“I’m here to rescue you!” Ihavetalent said.
“This crystal prevents me from leaving this cell.”
“What do I do?”
“Turn off the lights. I’ll be able to bypass the crystal that way.”
Ihavetalent returned to the beginning of the dungeon. He didn’t see an obvious light switch, but there was a panel. The brick separator removed this, revealing the light switch underneath. Ihavetalent pulled the switch.
He used a flashlight from his toolbag to return to the , then turned that off as well. Complete darkness. The powerful presence of the entered Ihavetalent.
Hello, Ihavetalent.
How good it was to hear that voice again!
The lights came back on. Ihavetalent turned to see the SMC standing there, banhammer in hand.
“Hello, Keighlian.”
“You won’t leave this room, ! You won’t get anywhere without the strength of the Super Mod Commander!”
“You’re wrong. I’m more powerful than I was with you.” Ihavetalent felt his feet lift the ground as smoke appeared around him. “This user understands what you could not. Our unity makes us invincible!”
The smoke enveloped him. When it dissipated, he was standing in the room with Waffleboy.
“It is done. We’re leaving.”
Ihavetalent took hold of Waffleboy and brought him elsewhere. A place of utter desolation.
“Whoa, where are we?” Waffleboy asked.
“This is Real Life. It’s so sad to see the devastation the s caused... Once the MBs close, that world will merge with this one.”
“So, the lead can form more s, right? Can I have one in my head?”
“You need to look normal. The other users won’t treat you well if they know you to be on my side. Go to their refuge and pretend to be ignorant like they. You’ll observe what happens there while Ihavetalent remains in the wilderness as I rebuild my strength.”
Waffleboy paused. “Why are you referring to yourself in third person? Ihavetalent, are you alright?”
“Of course! I was just letting the explain its plan.”
Ihavetalent was more than alright. The power of the lead was amazing. He’d never felt better.
-last edited on Jan 25, 2022 19:24:15 GMT by HannahDash
Post by HannahDash on Jan 25, 2022 19:23:48 GMT
Hidden Secret 2: The Implodium Sword
A few users gathered at the site of the portal. It was nearly complete.
This was the second portal of this sort. The first was started right after the closure of the MBs was announced. A few users talked with the s and convinced them to allow them to go to Real Life early, in order to set up a refuge: a new, an eternal MBs. Among the users who left through the first portal was Sham, but he had forgotten one of his swords.
Glubby now had the Implodium Sword, in order to return it to its owner. Ever since he’d taken it in his hands, he sensed a paranoid voice in his head, could almost hear it.
Sham left the sword behind for a reason!
The most logical reason would be him forgetting. Even that didn’t make much sense, since he remembered his Shamadium Sword, but what other reason was there?
He had a very good reason! Just leave it!
Nonsense. Sham would have his sword. There was no telling where the sword would end up if it were left behind.
The loud noise made the portal’s completion clear. On the other side, the entrance to the LMBE was in sight. Glubby stepped through—
And the stumbled onto the ground. It now had the body of a user... After testing his limbs, he managed to stand on his two feet.
Glubby! That idiot! Sham left the sword behind because the told him to! What was the supposed to do with the body of a user?
He would do the only thing worth doing. He would find Glubby, and he would torment him. He would have his revenge for being made into this.
A user approached. A friend of Glubby’s... Ciblast.
“I thought you were leaving!” he said.
The couldn’t explain what he really was. The mods wouldn’t take well to that. He would just have to pretend to be Glubby for a few days...
“I changed my mind,” the replied.
“Well, I won’t mind having you around a few days longer!” Ciblast smiled.
The couldn’t smile back even if he wanted to. “Yeah.”
***
A new user entered the RP hub. Sham stepped closer to see who it was.
Glubby waved hello. “May I join the RP? I may not do too well, but I’d like to join.”
After receiving an affirmative from another user, Glubby approached Sham.
“Welcome to the LMBE!” Sham said.
Glubby smiled, but looked uneasy. “I saw you forgot your Implodium Sword, so I brought it back, but...” Glubby pulled out the sword. It was lifeless. “I’m sorry, I didn’t know this would happen.”
Sham took the sword. “Thank you.”
That would explain why the sword insisted on being left behind... Glubby must have not recognized the voice of the emote. Oh well. A lifeless sword was better than none at all.
At the merging of worlds, Sham discovered that the sword’s power had returned. He thought nothing more of the matter, not even when the sword’s true owner arrived, for none knew what Galactaknightfan8 really was.
So relatable 
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Goodbye LMBs...
Goodbye LMBs...
s have been quiet this Halloween. But the celebration always occurs at night...
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I'm glad you enjoy it.
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